'hidden' Characters In $_Request?

[thescientist]

So, I've run into a slightly interesting problem in the course of this work project. For some reason certain parts of a string aren't showing up when passed from a form via POST to a script which is handling some of the validation. For some reason, when I dump $_REQUEST, I can see the POST field there, and normally everything is fine. The case is if the user uses autocomplete, the address will be input into the form as

Some Person <sperson@something.net> //name : EmailTo

however, a dump of $_REQUEST reveals this for EmailTo

array(13) { ["command"]=> string(8) "sendmail" ["random"]=> string(10) "1317318346" ["unique"]=> string(0) "" ["id"]=> string(26) "gtf3pq9mu0jbqqt0nl6liq6tg0" ["folder"]=> string(5) "Inbox" ["action"]=> string(4) "save" ["msgid"]=> string(0) "" ["searchParams"]=> string(0) "" ["EmailTo"]=> string(35) "Some Person " ["EmailCC"]=> string(0) "" ["EmailBCC"]=> string(0) "" ["EmailSubject"]=> string(0) "" ["Message"]=> string(0) "" } 

for some reason everything between the <> doesn't show up, which is what i need to be able to validate against (although it appears they are all accounted for.

["EmailTo"]=> string(35) "Some Person "

Using someone@website.com works fine. If I do <hello>, then I get

array(13) { ["command"]=> string(8) "sendmail" ["random"]=> string(10) "1317318179" ["unique"]=> string(0) "" ["id"]=> string(26) "gtf3pq9mu0jbqqt0nl6liq6tg0" ["folder"]=> string(5) "Inbox" ["action"]=> string(4) "save" ["msgid"]=> string(0) "" ["searchParams"]=> string(0) "" ["EmailTo"]=> string(7) "" ["EmailCC"]=> string(0) "" ["EmailBCC"]=> string(0) "" ["EmailSubject"]=> string(0) "" ["Message"]=> string(0) "" } 

and we see nothing, but var dump tells is the string is 7 characters long. so where did they go? As far as I know no extra parsing is happening, but I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something super obvious first.

[justsomeguy]

If you're looking at that output in the browser, it's going to assume anything between < and > is an HTML tag. Check the source of the page instead.

[thescientist]